Awakening in Dharma - Treasure Platform Sutra of the Six Patriarch and the Structure of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Magical Realism Short Stories

Thanh Trung Nguyen

Abstract: Applying the structural method, this article examines Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Magical realism short stories from the concept of enlightenment presented in Dharma - Treasure Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Thus, the manipulations of structuralism are used to clarify the meaning and content of these short stories; some controversial issues of Magical realism are generalized and explained.

Keywords: awake, The Dharma, Treasure Platform Sutra of the Sixth Zen Patriarch, magical realism short stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez